Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bank of the Kissimmee River. As he shoveled soil on the roots, a group of ebullient environmentalists crowded around him, laughing and applauding. "This is the heart that pumps the blood," said Graham of the river. "Our goal is, by the year 2000, the water system will look and function more as it did in the year 1900 than it does today." And with the turnaround, naturalists predict, the fledgling cypress will grow up to 30 ft. tall...
Fixx was fond of noting that regular aerobic workouts generally diminish the risk of heart dis ease; cholesterol levels, blood pressure, body weight and pulmonary function have all been shown to be positively influenced by exercise. A new study, conducted at Harvard and Stanford and published in last week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, further confirms the benefits. According to its principal author, Dr. Ralph Paffenbarger, the study of 17,000 men ages 35 through 84 revealed "a direct relationship between the level of physical activity and the length of life." Fatal heart disease...
...rewards of all the wit and work are now plentiful: for one thing, she is the only female in a seditious cabal called the American Academy of Humor Columnists, whose other members are Art Buchwald, Russell Baker, Art Hoppe, Gerald Nachman and Don Ross, and whose sole function is to give members an excuse to write insulting letters to one another. (She was admitted, says Buchwald, because she won a banana-bread bake-off with another woman and also promised to make coffee and clean up.) Her friends are admiring and loyal. "There is an awful lot under the hair...
...Ulam, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center, suspects that "Gromyko is making up for the time he was an errand boy for Khrushchev and Brezhnev." Says Richard F. Staar, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution: "Gromyko has always been a hardliner. He's delighted now to perform that function as the official spokesman for the party...
...continue. The Chiefs felt that their civilian colleagues in the Pentagon, Weinberger and Perle, were overrating the impor tance of throw weight. The Chiefs argued that what gave missile warheads their ability to threaten ene my silos was their accuracy, not their destructive capability, and accuracy was not a function of throw-weight. Also, they were determined to see START preserve limits on launchers, and the lower the better...